Somerville

Older Bostonians might still derisively call it "Slummerville", but today that tired old moniker couldn't be further from the truth. Packed with upwardly mobile professionals and longtime residents, Somerville is often voted an "All-America City" and the best-run city in .
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  • Type: City with 81,000 residents
  • Description: city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “Somerville, MA” and “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Postal codes: 02143-02145
  • Neighbors: , , , and

Places of Interest

Highlights include Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and Harvard Art Museums.

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The is a museum affiliated with Harvard University in , United States. Founded in 1866, the Peabody Museum is one of the oldest and largest museums focusing on anthropological material, with particular focus on the ethnography and archaeology of the Americas.

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The are part of Harvard University and comprise three museums: the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and four research centers: the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Archives, and the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.

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The is a natural history museum housed in the University Museum Building, located on the campus of Harvard University in .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cambridge and Charlestown.

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is a city in , across the Charles River from . It is renowned as the home of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both widely considered to be among the best universities in the world.

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's was the traditional home of employees at the now-decommissioned Navy Yard. It has experienced a shift in its population and industry and an increasing number of young professionals are joining the families who have lived in the area for years.

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is a city in , United States. At the time of the 2020 United States census, 's population was 59,659. It is home to Tufts University, which has its campus on both sides of the and Somerville border.

Somerville

Latitude
42.3876° or 42° 23′ 15″ north
Longitude
-71.0995° or 71° 5′ 58″ west
Population
81,000
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US UZB
Open location code
87JC9WQ2+26
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158861032
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4951257
Wiki­data ID
Q49199
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Armenian—“Somerville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سومرفيل”
  • Armenian: “Սոմերվիլ”
  • Basque: “Somerville”
  • Bulgarian: “Съмървил”
  • Catalan: “Somerville”
  • Cebuano: “Somerville”
  • Chechen: “Сомервиль”
  • Chinese: “Somerville”
  • Chinese: “萨默维尔”
  • Chinese: “薩默維爾”
  • Czech: “Somerville”
  • Dagbani: “Somerville”
  • Danish: “Somerville”
  • Dutch: “Somerville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سومرفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Somerville”
  • French: “Somerville”
  • German: “Somerville”
  • Gilaki: “سؤمرويل (ماساچۊست)”
  • Gilaki: “سؤمرويل”
  • Greek: “Σόμερβιλ”
  • Haitian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Haitian: “Somerville”
  • Hebrew: “סומרוויל”
  • Hungarian: “Somerville”
  • Interlingua: “Somerville”
  • Irish: “Somerville”
  • Italian: “Somerville”
  • Japanese: “サマーヴィル (マサチューセッツ州)”
  • Japanese: “サマーヴィル”
  • Japanese: “サマービル (マサチューセッツ州)”
  • Japanese: “サマービル”
  • Japanese: “ソマーヴィル”
  • Kazakh: “Сомэрвилл”
  • Kirghiz: “Сомэрвилл”
  • Korean: “서머빌”
  • Ladin: “Somerville”
  • Latin: “Somerville”
  • Macedonian: “Сомервил”
  • Malagasy: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Malagasy: “Somerville”
  • Mazanderani: “سامرویل (ماساچوست)”
  • Mazanderani: “سامرویل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Somerville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Somerville”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Somerville”
  • Norwegian: “Somerville”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Somerville”
  • Persian: “سامرویل، ماساچوست”
  • Persian: “سامرویل”
  • Polish: “Somerville”
  • Portuguese: “Somerville”
  • Romanian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Romanian: “Somerville”
  • Russian: “Сомервилл”
  • Serbian: “Самервил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Somerville”
  • Slovak: “Somerville”
  • Slovenian: “Somerville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سامرویل، ماساچوست”
  • Spanish: “Somerville (Massachusetts)”
  • Spanish: “Somerville”
  • Swahili: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Swahili: “Somerville”
  • Swedish: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Swedish: “Somerville”
  • Talysh: “Somervill”
  • Tatar: “Сомервиль”
  • Turkish: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Turkish: “Somerville”
  • Ukrainian: “Сомервіль”
  • Urdu: “سومرویل، میساچوسٹس”
  • Urdu: “سومرویل”
  • Uzbek: “Somerville”
  • Vietnamese: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Vietnamese: “Somerville”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Somerville”
  • Volapük: “Somerville”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Somerville”
  • Welsh: “Somerville, Massachusetts”
  • Welsh: “Somerville”
  • Western Armenian: “Աոմըրվիլ”

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